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Survivor accounts have pushed to more than 700 the number of migrants feared dead in Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks in the last two weeks of May 2016, even as European ships saved thousands of others in daring rescue operations.

The shipwrecks appear to account for the largest loss of life reported in the Mediterranean since April 2015, when a single ship sank with an estimated 800 people trapped inside

Humanitarian organizations say that many migrant boats sink without a trace, with the dead never found, and their fates only recounted by family members who report their failure to arrive in Europe. Read more...

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